Are you in the beginning stages of developing an online or blended class? This webinar provides an overview of the Sloan-C New to Online Workshop Series and how you can develop the skills you need to successfully design and deliver your class. Join us to learn more about the New to Online Series, what to expect in a workshop, and how you can sign up to take part in an upcoming workshop. This webinar has no prerequisites and can be taken by anyone who is interested in improving the quality of their online course design and how to start teaching online.

1. Q:
Have you ever taken
an online class?
Online Student Experience

2. Q:
Have you ever taught
an online course?
Online Faculty Experience

3. Q:
Why …
are you here today?
Type Message
One Final Question …

4. Workshop Series

5. Who is Sloan-C?
 Consortium of 470 institutions & 6,746
individuals dedicated to quality online education
 Industry leader for 22years in research and
development of online learning through
publications, conferences, research and faculty
development…
Over 3,500 folks took a workshop at Sloan-C Institute last year!

6. Who are Sloan-C Members?
 Members come from 49 states along with the District of
Columbia and the territory of Puerto Rico
 International Members from 5 other countries: New
Zealand, Australia, Canada, Chile, and Israel.
Data Current January 2014

7. Who are we?
Sandra Coswatte (@SandraCoswatte)
 Director, Sloan-C Institute
 15 years teaching experience, 11 years online
 6 years experience in faculty development
Holly Rae Bemis-Schurtz (@hollyrae)
 Instructional Consultant, Sloan-C Institute
 15 years experience in educational technology
 10 years experience in online education

8. Today’s Webinar

10. Teaching online is
fundamentally different.
Share your answer
http://bit.ly/online
teachingchallenges

11. Let’s see those results….
Share your answer
http://bit.ly/online
teachingchallenges

12. Fundamental Concerns for Online Teachers
TECHNOLOGY
•Learning Management Systems , Teaching Toolkit
EFFECTIVENESS
•Retention, Academic Integrity, Assessment, Support
SATISFACTION
•Faculty Workload, Student Engagement, Stakeholder
Approval

13. Where do you begin??
The Basics

14. Know your format
“Online learning is not the next big thing;
it is the now big thing.”
- Donna J. Abernathy

15. Web
Enhanced
• Some components online
• Instruction face to face
Blended
• Significant face to face and online
instruction
Online
• Completely online
• May include “live” sessions ..or not
Online Coursework Formats

16. Quality
“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high
intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful
execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.”
-William A. Foster

17. Q:
What does a quality online
class mean to you?
Do students and faculty
measure quality in the
same way?
Do they want the same
thing out of the courses?
Quality Questions

18. A work in process
Continual
review/revision/improvements
Quality Online Courses

19. Beyond the basics…
Begin with expertise.
Sloan-C’s Pillars of Quality

20. Sloan-C’s Pillars of Quality
5 Fundamental Online
Teaching Concepts

21. Learning
Effectiveness
Scale
Access
Faculty
Satisfaction
Student
Satisfaction
Sloan-C 5 Pillars

22. Learning
Effectiveness
Take advantage of the
learning environment
Provide learning experiences
that are quality in the modality
being used
Learning Effectiveness

23. Scale
Leverage key educational resources
while offering new
online learning opportunities to
students and faculty
Schools offer their best educational
value to learners and to achieve
capacity enrollment
Cost-effective measures and practices
Scale

24. Provide meaningful and effective access
throughout the entire student's life
cycle
Access
•
•
•
•
Program Selection
Course Availability
Appropriate Learning Resources
Support (Academic, Financial, Student, Technical)
Access

25. Instructors find the online teaching
experience personally rewarding and
professionally beneficial
Faculty
Satisfaction
•
•
•
•
•
School Provides Support
Opportunity for Research/Publication
Involved in the Governance and Quality Insurance
Institutional Reward System
Opportunity for Continued Professional
Development
Faculty Satisfaction

26. Student
Satisfaction
The goal is that all students who
complete a course express
satisfaction with course rigor
and fairness, with professor
and peer interaction,
and with support services
Student Satisfaction

27. Q:
Learning
Effectiveness
Scale
Which is most important
to you today?
Access
Type Message
Faculty
Satisfaction
Student
Satisfaction

28. YOU need to know

30. IDEA
RESOURCES
EXAMPLES
TEMPLATES
LINKS

31. I FEEL
ISOLATED
DOES
ANYONE
ELSE HAVE
THIS SAME
CHALLENGE
?
I WISH I
DIDN’T HAVE
TO START
FROM
SCRATCH

32. LET’S
COLLABORATE
#FACULTYHOA
#EDCHAT
#SLOANC
WHAT
WORKS FOR
ME IS…
I’M
USING
THESE
TOOLS
TRY THIS!

34. Commit Time
& Effort
Identify
Subskills
Focus on a
Goal
Practice
Try it out

35. Q:
What skills
are you building?
Type Message

36. New to Online:
The Essentials
Most Popular Sloan-C Workshop
 Experience online environment as a student
 Explore critical differences between teaching
online and face-to-face
 faculty and student expectations
 role adjustments
 course design

37. New To Online:
Supporting Online Learners
 Identify and explore strategies to
support new online learners
 Create a plan to support new online
learners in your courses

38. New To Online:
Quality Course Design Frameworks
 Explore & discuss common quality metrics
 Evaluate the quality of your course based on
the identified quality metrics and develop an
improvement plan

39. Strategies for Increasing Interaction
and Engagement
 Discuss and evaluate strategies that help
overcome obstacles to student engagement
 Develop a plan to improve
student engagement
in your online course

40. Sloan-C Workshops
Workshops
7 day, 3 day, and 4 hours
Over 120 workshops in 2014
Delivered with asynchronous and
synchronous components
Is your institution a Sloan-C Member? Find out at
http://sloanconsortium.org/institutional_members

41. 4-hour
3-day
7-day
Synchronous
Asynchronous
Asynchronous
$249 / $149
$249 / $149
$269 / $169

42. 4 Hour Synchronous Workshops
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
11:59pm ET
12:00pm ET
12:00 – 4:00pm ET ,
11:59pm ET
Registration closes
Workshop opens for
early enrollment
Enrollment keys
emailed
Participate in entire
event and turn in
final assignment for
Award of
Completion

43. 3 Day Asynchronous Workshops
Wednesday Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
11:59pm ET
12:00pm ET
12:00pm ET
5:00pm ET
Workshop
officially
begins
Last
Workshop
moment to ends
enroll if you
want to earn
an Award of
Completion
12:00pm ET
Registration Workshop
closes
opens for
early
Enrollment enrollment
keys emailed

44. 7 Day Asynchronous Workshops
Wednesday Thursday
11:59pm ET 12:00pm ET
Friday
12:00pm ET
Registration
closes
Workshop
officially
begins
Enrollment
keys emailed
Workshop
opens for
early
enrollment
5:00pm ET
Workshop
ends
Saturday
Sunday
11:59pm ET
Last day to
enroll if you
wish to earn
an Award of
Completion

45. What can I expect?
 Facilitators who are subject matter experts or
leaders in field
 Ability to network with faculty from all over the
country (some international)
 Practical opportunities to build effective online
teaching skills
 Access to resources provided by facilitators and
workshop participants alike

46. Designed for You
 Build or enhance for educators’ professional knowledge,
skills, and leadership in distance/online education and
training
 Flexible, learner-centered offerings integrate core
knowledge and theory with practical, experiential-based
exercises, case studies, and discussions
 Presented via the Internet and web conferencing, with
supplemental print and multi-media format
 Option to enroll in workshops on a certificate or noncertificate basis

47. New to Online: Learning Outcomes
 Develop skills in distance education and online learning
 Expand current knowledge and apply new ideas in practice
 Provide grounding in the pedagogy of online teaching and
learning
 Prepare participants to facilitate online, built upon Sloan-C’s
effective practices, using their current teaching or training
materials
 Gain hands-on experience as a distance learner

48. Sloan-C Institute Track Offerings
New To
Online
Online
Design
Online
Management
Online Tools
Online
Learners

49. ThankYou for Attending Today

50. Questions
For questions about any of programs, advisory
services, or conferences email us!
workshop@sloanconsortium.org